Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOUNTAINS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON


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First Line: The mountain seems to guard
Last Line: And take what highways bring.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


The mountain seems to guard
The land that lies behind,
But I've been on the other side
And know what one can find.

The houses, roads and streets,
The menfolk and the ladies,
Are pretty much the same one meets
In Buffalo or Cadiz.

A mountain can be stern
To human hand and toe --
And on the other side we learn
What we already know.

No mountain have I found
That guards a single thing.
Instead of up, I go around
And take what highways bring.





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